"Winners write history, but losers leave the most valuable lessons." ( https://xkcd.com/1827/ ) Small business owners often look at...

"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that." – Homer Simpson Small business...

"There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of...

A brand is a promise. A good brand is a promise kept.  – Muhtar Kent, former CEO of Coca-Cola Few business rivalries are as iconic as...

"Fraud is the daughter of greed."  – Jonathan Gash Fraud isn’t always obvious. While most business owners worry about being scammed by a...

"Numbers don’t lie, but they can certainly mislead." Small businesses rely on data for everything from pricing strategies to marketing...

"The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."— Henry David...

“You get a show or a movie you're really dying to watch, and you end up staying up late at night, so we actually compete with sleep.” -...

"Trust, once lost, is the hardest currency to earn back."  – Unknown Fraud is a word that makes most business owners uncomfortable, and...

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." — Mark Twain For large corporations, the exact age of the...

"Too many cooks spoil the broth."— Proverb When businesses make decisions, they often focus on the net present value (NPV) of each...

"The closer you are to the edge, the less room there is for error."  – Anonymous When it comes to decision-making in business and...

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." — George Bernard Shaw -Source https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pascal3...

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." — Dwight D. Eisenhower While NPV...

“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi When it comes to evaluating investment opportunities or making strategic...

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." – Ray Kroc When Ray Kroc stepped into the McDonald brothers'...

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”  –Michael Dell Small businesses are unique in their deep integration of the owner’s...

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa Why Do Businesses Franchise?...

“The difference between successful people and others is how they understand and manage money.” – Robert Kiyosaki When discussing...

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 In a world without any seasonality...